In an industry often criticized for its obsession with youth in front of the camera, it has been nice to see accomplished veterans Catherine O’Hara, Judith Light and Katey Sagal attracting multiple offers at the onset of the 2020 broadcast pilot season. Sagal already made her choice, committing to play the lead in ABC…
The first trailer for director Scott Cooper’s Antlers sees a young boy reading his school assignment aloud as his teacher becomes increasingly more concened by its disturbing subject matter. Judging by what we see, that’s a fair assessment on her part.
The clip is filled with unsettling images — blood trails…
When posters for Broadway’s revival of Burn This started heating up New York’s chilly subway stations earlier this winter, stars Adam Driver and Keri Russell, snuggling, entangled, staring holes, seemed a sort of inevitable pairing. Both looked incredible, and he was arriving in step with his Oscar nomination for…
Can a play lie in wait? Let’s say it can so we can say that it has: Lanford Wilson’s Burn This has been lurking about since 1987 anticipating the arrival of Adam Driver, and for that match-up alone the years haven’t been wasted.
But that match-up alone is very nearly all we get in Michael Mayer’s Broadway revival…
Next spring’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell has completed casting and set an April 16 opening date at the Hudson Theatre.
Previews begin March 15, with Tony Award nominees David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz rounding out the four-member cast, says producer David…
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The Television Academy, with near-daily email reminders, is badgering procrastinating members to get their Emmy ballots in before 10 PM PT on Monday night. In other words, you have one more weekend of this long and winding campaign season to…
Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on the top acting contenders for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the categories of Outstanding Lead and Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Two past winners in the category…
The Americans‘ Keri Russell will join the previously announced Adam Driver in Michael Mayer’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, producer David Binder announced today. The play begins performances in March 2019 at a theater to be announced.
The production will mark Russell’s first appearance on a New York…
For a third consecutive year, FX reigned as top winner at Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards feting programming and performances in the 2017-2018 TV season.
Three of FX’s four awards went to Cold War thriller The Americans, including Program Of The Year, Best Drama, and a Drama Series Individual Achievement…
One name conspicuously absent from Disney and Lucasfilm’s unveiling today of the full cast of Star Wars: Episode IX was Keri Russell. The Americans star was confirmed earlier this month to be in talks for a role in the pic, which begins shooting next week in London.
The reason her name wasn’t on the cast list: she…
After being largely ignored by the Television Academy through most of its six season run, the Cold War era FX spy seriesThe Americans today finally felt a warm embrace, with four nominations in major categories.
It isn't often that a show so inexplicably forgotten by the Academy during its run gets so many…
Keri Russell is in talks to join Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode IX. The casting would reunite her with the film’s director J.J. Abrams, who created her series Felicity, which ran from 1998-2002. In addition, Russell and Abrams worked together on Mission: Impossible III.
No word on who Russell would be…
